1. (a) A school district or open-enrollment charter school operating a High School Equivalency Program (HSEP) must comply with all assurances in the program application. Approved HSEPs will be required to submit annually one progress report on a form to be provided by the General Educational Development Testing Service (GEDTS) to the agency. The data in the progress reports must be disaggregated by ethnicity, age, gender, and socioeconomic status. Approved HSEPs will submit data as stated in the assurances section of the program application.
2. (b) A school district or open-enrollment charter school authorized by the commissioner on or before August 31, 2003, to operate a program in accordance with this subchapter may continue to operate that program in accordance with this section.
3. (c) Enrollment in an HSEP may not exceed by more than 5% the total number of students enrolled in a similar program operated by the district or charter school during the 2000 - 2001 school year.
4. (d) A student enrolled in an HSEP must be offered a seven-hour school day and a 180-day instructional year calendar.
5. (e) Beginning with the 2003 - 2004 school year, a student may be enrolled in an HSEP that was authorized by the commissioner on or before August 31, 2003; however, the student can not take any portion of the GED test after September 1, 2003, without meeting the assessment requirements specified in §89.1409 of this title (relating to Assessment).

Source Note:The provisions of this §89.1417 adopted to be effective November 27, 2001, 26 TexReg 9620; amended to be effective May 2, 2004, 29 TexReg 3957.